Talks by priestmonk Kosmas available for download: basics in Orthodoxy, married life, upbringing of children, death and afterlife, elder Paisios, elder Porphyrios, spiritual life in the world, advice on prayer, lives of saints, magic and sorcery, miracles and deception.

A book and a film by Dr. Norris J. Chumley who traveled to St. Anthony’s Monastery in the Egyptian desert and St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, to convents in Transylvania and to monasteries in Russia, the Ukraine, and Greece — in search of Christianity’s first mystical tradition and its modern-day practitioners. The monks and nuns he met taught him how to move through the stages of the Jesus Prayer, and how it can foster an unceasing, and ever deepening, conversation with God.

A multimedia library and an online framework featuring Orthodox Christian Spirituality through voices of contemporary Spiritual Fathers. Modern-day Elders’ reflections on the Ancient Faith of the Christian Church.

Metropoly and parishes of the Diocese in Western and Central Europe. Links, picture galeries, text presentations and service programs to web-sites of Bulgarian parishes in Western and Central Europe. Church life: calendar, feast, “Dveri” portal page. News: “Dveri”, “Pravoslavie”, “Religia” on Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Links to special websites on Orthodox Bulgaria and Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

The Monastery is under the authority of Metropolitan Maximos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate and is dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas. General information, directions, candle shop, service schedule, bookstore. The Saint: introduction, biography, writings. Articles. eMatins.

This is a personal blog that discusses the churchly and academic life and other current events from an Orthodox perspective and especially from the perspective of the study of historical theology and patristics.